Book Review: The Book of Joys by John Saul with images by Albert Irvin
Experience is elusive. Mindful of its gossamer caprices, John Saul sets short stories as snares in...
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Not What We Were Expecting: Alistair McGowan on his debut poetry collection
Like many schoolboys, there was a lot about poetry that I struggled with. Why was Keats writing...
Read MoreBook Review: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the third of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been...
Read MoreBook review: We Go Around In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire
Manchester? Check. Lesbians? Check. Gangsters? Oh, go on then. Reading the blurb of this debut novel by Jules Grant, a former barrister from Manchester, is more than enough to pique my interest. Told through the eyes of Donna,...
Read MoreReader, I went to Haworth: following in the footsteps of the Brontës
I have loved the Brontë sisters since I was a teenage bookworm. I spent a great deal of my young life swooning over the brooding characters of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester while reading dog-eared copies of Wuthering Heights and...
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